HF: The Shaw enterprise is one of the oldest and most influential enterprises in the Chinese language movie television circle. Having shaped the development of China’s movie industry for nearly a century, the enterprise has a story which coincides closely with Hong Kong’s own history. The Shaw’s story can be told in four parts, centering respectively on its phases as […]
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HF: At Christmas 1953, Hong Kong changed forever. Around 9.30p.m. on the evening of the 25th December, a bucket of molten rubber was accidentally knocked over in the shanty town on Shek Kip Mei. Fire quickly spread through the wooden huts and rudimentary buildings of this vast squatter settlement. By the time the last flames were extinguished, two people were […]
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Ralph Wood has kindly sent the following article. George Underhill Sands was Ralph’s Great-granduncle. Ralph has compiled a substantial amount of information about George Sands’ family as well as the man himself. This can be found on Ralph’s website which is linked below the article. This website has posted a couple of articles about George Underhill Sands which are also […]
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Tymon Mellor: It has never been clear why if there was a lead mine at Lead Mine pass, no one has developed the site when exploration has been undertaken all over the territory. There are references to the mine location on the contemporary maps and within Government reports following the take over of the New Territories in 1898. But no further […]
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York Lo: Cost Plus Bazaar (美廉市場) and Mark V (美發) Left: Chinese advertisement for Cost Plus Bazaar at the Ocean Terminal in 1964 featuring some of the Japanese furniture. The store opened daily from 10 to 10 (WKYP, 1964-7-19) American retailers, big and small, have been the key driving force of industrial development in HK and China for the past […]
» Read moreHF: BACKGROUND ON THE SYSTEM’S CONSTRUCTION The northwest part of the New Territories of Hong Kong, which includes the new town of Tuen Mun, a developing market town, Yuen Long, and the Castle Peak Road corridor between the two towns, has been developing rapidly since the mid 1970s under the Hong Kong government’s new towns development program to cope with […]
» Read moreSee: Area the size of 12 football fields on former Kai Tak runway to store fallen trees in clean-up struggle after Mangkhut SCMP 30th September 2018 China developer’s net profit at Hong Kong’s old Kai Tak airport to lose altitude amid turbulence in property market SCMP 30th December 2018 More ships and more passengers, but Kai Tak Cruise Terminal is […]
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The history of explosive storage in Hong Kong is an interesting one. The earliest location appears to have been Magazine Island, originally named One Tree Island, which lies just to the West of Aberdeen Harbour. From 1887 to 1908 it was leased for an annual rent of $100, by the Nobel Explosives Company, who built a magazine, a road and […]
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‘A biography of Sir Paul Chater would be a history of Hong Kong’, the South China Morning Post obituary stated on 28 May 1926, Arriving as an impecunious but ambitious and extremely capable teenager, he was later to be described by the Sunday Times of London, ‘as one of the most powerful and…most beneficent figures in the Empire’. [This article […]
» Read moreIDJ has sent the following newspaper article. HF: I have retyped the original article to aid clarity and searches on the internet. A memorial bust to the late Mr. Fung Ping-shan was unveiled yesterday afternoon at the Aberdeen Industrial School, in the presence of a large and distinguished gathering, by H.E. the Governor, Sir Geoffrey Northcote. His Excellency also distributed […]
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